In November this year, the Scottish port city of Glasgow was the host of an event that once again brought the urgent question of climate change to...
In 2004, three years into the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, a number of dreadful photographs surfaced that showed members of the US military,...
“There is no such thing as race, none” – this is how master novelist Toni Morrison broke it down very simply in a famous interview. “It’s...
In a bold and defiant recent book, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto , Suketu Mehta has written a deeply erudite defence of global...
Soon after my second Covid-19 shot, I received an email from a dear friend who I had been remiss in contacting, asking how I was coping with, as she...
The idea of American democracy from its very inception, and as flagged by the ridiculous euphemism of its “exceptionalism”, is literally a...
This year’s Black Lives Matter uprising in the US and the way it resonated with people in different corners of the world drew renewed attention to...
I sat down with Obama’s book, with a cup of my reassuring tea in tow, thumbing through its pages. I looked at the glossy pictures inside, read the...
“They came, they uprooted, they burned, they killed, they plundered, and they left.”This is celebrated Persian historian Ata-Malik Juvayni’s ...
Lebanon has been witnessing unprecedented demonstrations against the government that suggest the country’s proverbial sectarianism seems suddenly...
In the aftermath of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the United States is once again roiling in pain, struggling to come to...
Soon after Trump ordered the separation of immigrant children from their parents, conscientious observers began exposing the longer roots of such...
A resounding majority of UN member states has denounced the US’ arrogant decision to unilaterally declare Jerusalem “the capital” of the...
A gloomy early afternoon in mid-November New York, a heavily overcast grey sky - it is a perfect setup to enter the cemented austerity of The Met...
Late in September, the admin of an academic list-serve sent a message to the list in which he requested a pdf copy of a recently published scholarly...
“There are no more villages left, none at all”. The accounts of the systematic ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Myanmar, now effectively...
The gross spectacle of racist terrorists in August in Charlottesville, US, and President Trump’s unabashed siding with the proto-Fascist white...
How to watch a master stylist filmmaker doing what he does best about a war long-waged, won and lost at a time of wars scarcely chronicled, let...
When you finally sit down to watch the film, you recall how Wonder Woman is none other than Diana, the warrior princess of the Amazons, born and...
For more than a decade and a half, Muslim countries from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya to Palestine have been the targets of the most colossal war...
